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• xantoxis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Admittedly the image quality is “this meme first appeared in a dirty magazine in 1986 and has been re-compressed twice a year since the internet was invented”, but there are falling lines above the cucumber, and a little puff of smoke where it hits the ground. It’s depicted as falling out of a tree.

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  • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s common to use a trellis with cucumbers to have their vines grow vertically instead of covering all of the horizontal space of a garden. That makes cucumbers “hang” in the air like a fruit on a tree, and would lead to those motion lines in a fall.

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    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But did they do that in Newton’s time?

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      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well before Newton discovered gravity, the vines would have been floating freely around. His discovery is what triggered the cucumber to hit the ground.

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  • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The apple falls next to a tree trunk, the cucumber falls next to vines and leaves near the ground. You wrong.

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